Science claims the brain’s frontal lobe controls what is called the executive function. This helps a person to have impulse control, plan for the future and motivate them for things to come.
Naturally, parents want their child to have a promising future, especially when it comes to scholastic and social success. It’s common for many mothers to carry their babies to optimum health with regular exercise, a healthy diet and listening to music.
On the other hand, preparing the nursery in a way that will best impact the child’s intelligence is not always known. Child psychologists have attested to the role played by a well-designed nursery to enhance a child’s cognitive development.
This means designing a nursery for aesthetics and functionality doesn’t mean expensive toys and fancy furniture. It’s more important to carefully consider the items you’ll include in the room, from hangings and accessories to their arrangements.
Take a look at some of the best choices your children’s nurseries should have to increase their intelligence.
Essential Storage
Storage units are important in any room and even more so in nurseries. Cabinets, baskets, buckets and boxes are just some of them.
However, if you want to make these accessible to your child and encourage their use, you should consider multifunctional storage. For instance, a toy box.
Instead of choosing a standard transparent box, why not get ones in bright colors? Babies are attracted to visual objects.
You can join your babies in their playtime and show them the toys from the colorful boxes and then talk to them about the importance of picking up their toys after use and replacing them in the storage.
This fosters discipline and a sense of responsibility.
A Rich Bookshelf
Instead of letting them indulge in gadgets, it’s better to encourage their love for reading and learning by making a bookshelf accessible. The best way to do this is to place the bookshelf at a child’s eye level.
Tailor it at a height that they can easily reach. This way, they won’t wait for you to choose books for them as they will do it themselves.
Pick books that will provide them with ample stimulation, like customized children’s books which will enrich their imagination and those filled with bright colors, illustrations and various texts.
Play Corner
It’s ideal to set aside a corner for the child’s fun activities, like a play area or an arts and crafts station. Provide the kids with a small table where they can sit, read or indulge in making crafts.
It’s also somewhere they can play pretend and enjoy tea parties with their imaginary friends. A corner where they can be themselves and dedicate their attention to the matter at hand.
For example, like reading, playing, or creating, is ideal if you want your child to learn how to focus and stimulate their imagination.
Memory Simulators
There’s nothing like contrasting colors to invigorate your child’s cognitive development. Choose your decors in starkly different colors, like dark blue and canary yellow.
Babies are especially sensitive to colors in high contrast. It helps them inspect subtle differences in colors like red and orange or violet and blue. It helps them in the complex task of seeing color, movement and timing in one object.
Incorporate brain-friendly decors like wall hangings and accessories in different shapes, patterns and colors to stimulate the children’s memory. Also to allow them to expect distinct edges as babies often rely on them to distinguish things.
Changing Themes
A playful theme for the nursery is pleasing to the eyes and also a fun way to reflect your child’s personality. This is why it’s important to design the room to grow and evolve constantly with your child.
Make it a point to change the theme now and then. For babies and young toddlers, it’s understandable for parents to choose the decors and theme of the room.
However, as the child grows, it’s advisable parents seek their children’s preferences and encourage them to make changes in the room themselves. It can be as simple as choosing the wall paint or picking the wallpaper.
This way, you won’t only develop their aesthetics capabilities. Children will also hone their skills in making decisions and applying them in reality.
Night-Light
They say a one-month-old baby needs 50 times more illumination than adults do to detect the presence of light. This is because their retina has not fully developed yet. While this is so, as babies grow more and more each day, the need for light is more adamant.
It’s not only to help you avoid stubbing your toe on the furniture as you perform your motherly duties in the middle of the night. A good night light can go a long way.
LED firefly lights, which are popular in many nurseries and children’s bedrooms, exposes children to light and moving objects, helping their brain’s prewired visual pathways to develop one of the most important senses – vision.
Smart Toys
What child can say no to toys? Most parents will want to give their kids a form of entertainment.
However, it is important to know which toys will help your children develop both mentally, physically, and emotionally. For motor skills, balls are the best choice since these encourage children to move their body as they bounce, roll, catch and throw balls.
These also develop their hand and eye coordination and dexterity. Shape-sorting toys like pegboard puzzles and nesting blocks, on the other hand, improve a child’s problem-solving skills.
The main thing is children’s toys can entertain as well as enhance their mental and physical capabilities.
Make Your Homes Better
Home is a place where your children grow, and the way you maintain your house is just as important as the way you raise them. Moreover, since they spend most of their formative years in the nursery and, eventually, their bedroom, it is only sensible to turn that space into more than just an abode for resting, sleeping and playing.
It must also be equipped with decors and other necessities which will enrich their minds and help them grow into their highest potentials.
